IGN Australia managed to catch up with God of War III lead designer Todd Papy and the short interview shed some light on the graphical and technical aspects of Kratos and his knack for killing everything that moves. Since the dev team has a lot of PS3 power to work with, Papy has plenty of room to learn, to polish, and to share knowledge with other developers.

Here's a bit of good news for European gamers who don't have the means to buy Pain over the PlayStation Network. The game will be released on Blu-ray next week.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) is going black. EB Games Australia is reportedly offering at their online store the Assassin'sc Creed 2 Exclusive Black Collector's Edition, and is pegging it for a November 2009 ship-out.

Two years ago, Atari Europe was fortunately in the safe zone, despite the mother company's grim and disheartening financial report of Q2 2007. Back then, the problem was isolated only to the US offices, and the Atari branch was said to be unharmed by the restructuring overseas. Today, however, Atari Europe is no more, now having been officially acquired by Namco Bandai.

Atari scores the re-release rights for Bethesda's Fallout 3 in Australia. ccording to their fact sheet sent out, the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions will be available from your local retailers on the 21st of May. Qest Pack 1 is also coming as well, but with a catch -- not for the PS3.

Looks like Take-Two Interactive is moving some chess pieces for a formal announcement of something big soon. Big in the sense of moving corporate squares, perhaps. A recent trademark filing from T2 was recently spotted - one for an "Irrational Boston". You don't have to look far to assume what it could possibly be. I'm sure some of you guys remember Irrational Games, yes?

Beautiful Friday night, and here's a little something-something for the couch-ridden gamer. This week's video content update features an interesting mix of movies. Whether it's drooling over Wonder Woman, or a diving Jessica Alba in Into the Blue, or you could relive the childhood rage you had over Tommy Gunn's ungrateful ass in Rocky V. Complete list is inside.

As the attorney general of South Australia, Michael Atkinson has been one of the most rabid critics against the introduction of an R18+ classification in Australia. This has made him a frequent target for Aussie gamers. GameSpot recently had a chance to ask Mr. Atkinson why he's so against the R18+ rating. Check out Mr. Atkinson's point of view after the jump.

An 80 GB PlayStation 3 in the US goes for US$ 399. In Australia, it's around US$ 456. SmartHouse recently wrote an article entitled "Why Sony is utterly broken and why a PS4 is needed now," accusing Sony of "price gouging Australians for several years."

You know what "spits the dummy" means? It means a display of anger in Australianese. In Englishese, that's what SCE Australia boss Michael Ephraim was during a phone call to SmartHouse.

Just a few more weeks and Alma finally unleashes havoc. Demo-schmemo, you can only go so far with the demo. The full game is just about to hit retail!

Just in time for a February 10 release in North America, FEAR 2: Project Origin has now gone gold for all of its platform versions, namely the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.